The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25

in quick sand.
Geo. f. Roberts, superintendent Of q.
G. Simmons Pleasant Prairie farm. was
called Oh to give his experience. There
were 100 acres in the field, about seven
teen Of which would produce nothing.
All the low, wet places were drained, and
now the entire surface is uniform, and
/ the crops on the low land is as good as
on any part of the farm. The cultiva-
ton can be done at much less expense.
THE land was put into barley and the
average yield was forty bushels per acre.
,, The cost of draining the hundred acres
was one thousand dollars, Simply under
drsining the low places.
Mr.. Theodore Louis gave a very in
Isfructive talk on breeding hogs or pro-
duclng pork. He insisted on breeding
only from mature parents and showed
how to feed to secure the best growth.
health and vigor of the swine. Corn is
rot a perfect food. He feeds bran, mid
dlings, oats and clover, because these
supply the material for bone and muscle:
feeds but little corn feeds milk sweet
keeps his sires in single pens, separated
from all others in the herd. Does not
ring them until after year old, so that
they may take natural exercise and grow
In strength and yigor. Three pounds of
corn per day will sustain hog of 100 lbs.
live weight, but it will not grow any. 1t
| costs him to winter a mature SOW So. 81,
by actual weight and count. He feeds
squash, turnips, clover hay, n1iddlings
and bran. His sows are healthy and al
ways raise their pigs.
SECOND Days PROCEEDINGS.
John Gould gave the people a talk on
raising fodder-corn, and preserving it in
the silo. Nopeople have been found We
who do not wish to hear about the new
| way of feeding stock, and it is rather as
tonishing how many there are who must
have read much about them who are
Eskeptical, and still cross-question a
speaker as a lawyer would witness to
find some flaw in the truth of his testi-
mony, or get further light. But the usu-
al result is, shall / build q silo this
lyear."
Mr.. J. r. Stone, of Illinois, said he had
crossed the state line to get some benefit
from Wisconsin farmers Institutes, and
was very earnest in his pursuit of infor-
nation. He asked if corn crop could
be sliced on top of clover crop that did
not fill the silo. Mr.. Gould said it could
be done, and, if done, he advised no re-
moval of the cover on the clover, but
deemed it better way to divide the
room into smaller compartments, before
filling. 1t was better for another reason
1.-The food might then be fed alternately,
which would make it more palatable for
the stock. To the query whether clover
or mlllet should be cut when put in the
silo, he said that those who had tried both
ways were in favor of cutting when it
| went in, but man had better have un-
| 81 gut clover sliced than the hay it would
.srmake.
i y 1. J. Clapp, of Kenosha, gave paper
| in advocacy of hanging on to the sheep
industry, that forms so large part of the
/ business in this county. He also spoke
4 ofdthe excellent plan of raising early
lambs for the spring market.
4 CT. Shumway also discussed the sheen
| business. He said he could run sheen
| farm with one-half the labor it took to
conduct the dairy, and could fence
cheaper. He opposed the cruel practice
OF washing the wool on the sheep. He
!, thought they were more successfully
competing with the plains at wool pro.
}. duction than formerly. The losses there
We're enormous and threatened the DIES.
!. ltruction of the business where there was
no shelter or stored-up food. Besides
local growers were getting better prices
; and learning how to produce cheaper.
w. V. Gull talked in about the same
vein as Mr.. Shumway. He was winter
ing 500 sheep and was hoping for re-
i vival of the business.
: G. II. Parks, a graduate of the uni.
fversity and farm course, gave paper in
(which he advocated the patronizing Of
q the facilities the state already affords fol
the special education of farmers sons
| He advised the taking of the full course
/ by all who could afford to do so, and held
THAT hundreds might take the short
course who now think they cannot. He
Twas not in favor of an agricultural college
$50 distinct and disconnected from the
| university and capitol as to cut off the
J pupils from access to the grand libraries
n located there.
1 R. F. Roberts quoted the opinion Of
EDr. L. E. Sturtevant, of New York, that
THE Hatch bill providing for agricultural
experiment stations is a fraud, would do
no good, and make only place to GUAR
ter officials. Mr.. Roberts is opposed to
fany more Of an agricultural college in
4 Wisconsin than we have, though he
would like to see more pupils attend the
present department. He doubts the wis
dom of the bill that provides more aid
for farmers institutes than $4,000 per
annum, and he probably. don't know
that if the fund had not been enlarged
that it would have taken most of the an
fpropriation of '87 and 'S8 to pay the ex-
lpenses of 1887, and that without addi-
l:tional aid the series for 1887 1888 would
thave been limited, indeed. Now we can
Fhave even more than the fifty-two of the
present winter. He also held that of the
$4,000 or $4,000 appropriated, every
tcent came out of the tax payers of the
Estate of Wisconsin. He was told that
mot only the money for Farmers insti-
tute, but for all the other states expenses
lcame from a tax on the earnings of the
! railways and other superintendent
from railroads-and that the earnings of
the railways were composed in part, and
not small part, of the funds paid by
those who rode and transported freight
across the state; and so the citizens of
other states were paying part of the ex-
penses as well as those Of our own citizens
who rode and had freight carried. He
said he would reply through the news
lpapers to that view.
| Mr.. Patterson stated to Mr.. Roberts
that not farmer in the state had paid a
cent of state tax direct in four years; and
Eif he had done so, he thought the farmer
who knew enough to come to the meet
ings and enjoy them was getting the
worth of his money.
|. 7. B. Terry gave an address on business
habits in farming, and urged the keeping
| of strict accounts Of all income and out
goes of the farm. This subject was
talked about by several. after Mr. Terry